Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-07 Thread Jack O'Connor
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > Yes, I think that would be the best solution. Each '*-headers' package > could provide 'kernel-headers' (or something like that). > Provides does not imply conflict, so that wouldn't be a problem. > > Note

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-07 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst
2016-03-08 0:10 GMT+01:00 Jack O'Connor : > > Would it be possible to depend on a "Provides" that all the different > kernel header packages share? Similar to how nvidia-libgl, > catalyst-libgl, and mesa-libgl all provide the "libgl" dependency. > That would solve the

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-07 Thread Jack O'Connor
> I didn't force the deps to linux-headers because you could use the kernel > (linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, linux-grsec, etc) you prefer (or all together). > I will add a message with the next release of virtualbox. Would it be possible to depend on a "Provides" that all the different kernel

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On dim., 2016-03-06 at 18:16 +0100, Chr1s via arch-general wrote: > On 03/06/2016 05:16 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > > > > It would be rather unfair towards users of a different kernel to make a > > hard dependency on the main kernel. > You're right, that could be unfair esp when you install kernels

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 18:16:09 +0100, Chr1s via arch-general wrote: >Is it possible to add a hint while installing the package? > >I know theres already an opt dep but for me an opt dep is very optional >but in this case you really need some headers to get the modules >working. Just to make it

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Chr1s via arch-general
On 03/06/2016 05:16 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > It would be rather unfair towards users of a different kernel to make a > hard dependency on the main kernel. You're right, that could be unfair esp when you install kernels via aur. Is it possible to add a hint while installing the package? I know

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:12:47 +0100, Chr1s via arch-general wrote: >Is it possible to add the `linux-headers' package as a dependency for >the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package or miss I something? Hi, you miss that the official provided linux and linux-lts headers are already optional dependencies

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Jens Adam
FYI: There's a recent thread on arch-dev-public: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-March/027802.html --byte pgp3CVjmYXzci.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 03/06/2016 11:12 AM, Chr1s via arch-general wrote: > Is it possible to add the `linux-headers' package as a dependency for > the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package or miss I something? I guess what you are missing is that it is already an optdepends. It would be rather unfair towards users of a

[arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

2016-03-06 Thread Chr1s via arch-general
Cheers Replacing the `virtualbox-host-modules' with the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package causes a "modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.3-1-ARCH". The whole misc (/lib/modules/4.4.3-1-ARCH/kernel/misc/) directory is missing. You need to install the